Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Prologue 1. The Lessons of the Hand 2. The Lime-Tree Bower and the Virgin of Amiens 3. Boundaries 4. Holding and Grasping 5. The Room 6. Addiction 7. Transgression 8. The Lesson of the Hand (2) 9. Praesentia 10. The King's Touch 11. The Therapy of Distance 12. The Therapy of Distance (2) 13. Relics 14. The Girdle and the River 15. 'A Goose which Has Grown in Scotland on a Tree' 16. Possessing Power 17. The Jewish Bride 18. First Steps 19. Kinetic Melodies 20. Kinetic Melodies (2) 21. Walker and World 22. Boundaries (2) 23. The Room (2) Appendix Notes Index